Car-door.



JQ. 845,509. PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907. -JOSEPH A. BOURGEOIS & JOHN A.BOURGEOIS.

OAR DOOR.

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W/TNESSES E WM No. 845,509. PATENTED PEB. 26, 1907.

JOSEPH A. BOURGEOIS 6a JOHN A. BOURGEOIS.

GAR DOOR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

JOSEPH BOURGEOIS AND JOHN ALBERT BOURGEOIS, OF ALGIERS, .'f LOUISIANA,ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO WILLIAM I-I. WHIITENBURG,

OF EALGIERS, LOUISIANA.

p Specification of Letters Patent.

CAW-DOOR. i

Patented Feb. 26,1907.

Application tiled May 15, 1906. Serial No. 316,945.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that we, JOSEPH ADAM BOUR- GEOIS and JOHN ALBERT BOURGEOIS,both citizens ofthe United States, and residents of Algiers,r in theparish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and11nproved Oar-Door, of which the following i's a full, clear, `and eXactdescription.

'this invention relates to car-doors and ro the object of the inventionis to produce a door which may be readily opened and closedandwhich-will be substantially water-tight when in its closed position.The invention consists in the constructior and combination of partsto bemore fully described hereinafter and`particularly set forth in theclaims. Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, ,forming apart of this specification, which similar characters of referencelindicate corresponding parts in all the fig- UIBS.- .",Figure lis aside elevation of a portion of thebody of a car provided with a car-doorof '.our invention. Iig. 2 is an' end elevation of aportion of the carand representing the door in its open position. Fig. 3 is an enlargedside elevation showing the door and the adjacent portion of the ear and4representing the 3 door vin itsclosed position. Fig. 4 is a verticalsection on line 4 ft of Fig.` 3., but representing the door in the actof beingopened. Fig.

5 is a view similarto Fig. 4, but representing the door in its closedposition.v Vlig. 6 is a vertical section taken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 7and illustratin la bracket which is used .in connectionl wit I the door,and Fig. 7 is an elevation showing the inner face of the bracket., .4uw; l M 4 A Referring more particularly to the parts, l represents thecar-body having a doorway 2 in the side thereof. This doorway is `formedwith a beveled lower edge or sill 3 an da beveled lintel or upper edge4. The side edges o`r jambs 5 of the doorway are also beveled, `as

indicated. .A

vAt a suitable point above the upper edge of the doorway we attach atrack, which comprises a cleat 7, attached to the side of the car, 5 tothe outer facewhereof a rail S is attached. -This rail consists simplyof a piece of strap iron or steel, and vit projects, as indicated, aboveand below the upper and lower faces of the. cleat 7. These faces of thecleat are preferably beveled so that the cleat tapers .5 5 toward therail, as shown infliig. 5. l'he door 2 is supported upon hangers y9i,which consist of vertical straps forrncdfinto yokes at their upperextremities and having rollers 10, which run upon the railS, asindicated. 6o 'Ihc lower portions of eachf-of theseV yokesis, bentinwardly to form an inclined extension' or stop 11, which limits theoutward ,swing-v ing movement of the door in a manner which will bedescribedmore fully hereinafter.'65V

The body of each of the hangers 9 is subst antiallyvertical and theextension 1l.` inclincs inwardly toward vthe doorway, as shown.Preferably at the angle of meeting of the 'extension 11 and the body ofthe hanger each- 7o hanger has pivoted theretoa link 12, and

j these links are attached pi'votally at their inner extremities yto theouter face ofthe door 2, as shownf` y j Below the lower edge of thedoorway we attach a pair of brackets, 13, the construction f of. whichis very clearly shown in Figs. 6 and 7.4 Each bracket presents aface-plate 14, which is held against the side of the car and is formedabove into a socket l5, thebottoln 8o 16 whereof inclines downwardlytoward 'thel car-body.l The outerl extremity .of they bracket terminatesin an upwardly-projecting finger or guard 17. l

On the lower portion of the door 2f* we 85 attach a transversehorizontal vshaft 18, which is rotatably held in suitable bearingclips19. The extremities of this shaft are offset to form cranks 20, to whichpitinenor connecting-rods V21 are pivotally attached, 9o and theseconnecting-rods attach pivotally to vertically-sliding bolts 22, whichmove longitudinally in suitable guide-clips 23, ate taclied to the door.Near itsI central point the shaft 18 is vprovided with arigdily-at- 95tached lever '24, the said lever being provided With slots 25 and 26.This lever is adapted to lie lat against the outer face of the car-dooreither projecting upwardly, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 3,or loo rojecting downwardly as .indicated in full ines. Cooperating withthe slots 25 and 26, staples 27 and 28are provided. Upon eitherof thesesta )les a padlock may be applied in order to lock the bolts 22 in afixedv position. 105 The cranks 20 and the lever 24 lie substanned bytially in the same plane, so that when the lever 24 is projectingupwardly the cranks 20 will also project upwardl From this arrangementby moving the ever in an upward direction the bolts 22 will be withdrawnupwardly. The lower edge 3 is beveled, so that it inchnes downwardlytoward its outer edge, while the beveled edge 4 is oppositelybeveled-that is, it inclines upward y toward its inner edge. When thedoor is not held in the doorway, it occupies substantially the positionshown in Fig. 4. In this connection it should be understood that thedoor hanging tends to swing outwardly; on the links 12, which supportitfrom the an ers, and` this outward swinging movement is imthe stoextenslons 1l of the hangers. With the door anging in this way it may bemoved sidewise, the rollers 10 running on the track 8, as will bereadily understood. When the door is before the doorway, the bolts 22lie just above the brackets 13. In closing the door the door is broughtinto position before the doorwa and the lever 24 is folded downwardly. ndoing this the bolts 22 are forced downwardly, and their lowerextremities, which are Ieferably beveled, as shown, engage the inc medbottoms 16 of the sockets 15. By forcing the bolts downwardly in thismanner the door will be forced bodily upwardly, swinging upwardly uponthe links 12. In this way the door is forced upwardly and laterally intothe doorway, the lower beveled'edgc of the door sliding up on thebeveled sill 3, It should be understood that when the weight of the dooris thrown upon the inclined faces ol' the brackcts the door tends toslide toward the car. As it slides inwardly in this way the door will beraised so that it moves upwardly and inwardly in a line substantiallyparallel with the bevel of the up er and lower edges of the doorway.When tlie door is tightly seated in the doorway, the lever 24 will havecome into the position shown in full lines in Fig.V 3, whereupon it maybe locked by a padlock. ln opening thel door of course theo eration justdescribed is reversed. When tie lever 24 is held in its uppermostposition, as-indicated in Fig. 4, the lower extremities of the bolts 22will clear the brackets 13, so that no obstruction is offered Vto thesliding of the door away from the doorway.

On account of the manner in which the edges 3 and 4 of the doorway arebeveled it is Impossible for rain to leak through the door when it isclosed. In this connection 1t should be understood that the edges of the-Patent-- 1. In combination, a car presenting a doorway having beveled uper and lower edges, a door mounted to run lifo'rizontally on said carso as to come before said doorway, brackets having their upper facesinclined downwardly toward the car, and bolts carried by said door andguided thereupon, means for forcing said bolts downwardly to engage saidbrackets whereby said door may be raised upon said brackets, theinclination of said faces tending to move said door inwardly toward saiddoorway.

2. In combination, a car having adoorwa with beveled upper and lower`edges, a trac attached to said car, a door having a swinging support onsaid track and adapted to come into position before said doorwa bracketsattached to said ear, bolts slidably carried by said door cooperatingwith said brackets to raise said door, a lever, means for actuating saidbolts by said ets having inclined faces depressed toward the ear wherebysaid door tends to slide inss'I lever, said brack- Wardly when raisedupon said brackets by said bolts.

In testimony names to this specification in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH ADAM BOURGEOIS. JOHN ALBERT BOURGEOIS.

Witnesses:

Josnrn DEINNEVILLE RICHARD, GEORGE A. LEBER.

whereof we have signed our

